Memories Quotes

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

I have a bad memory for facts.

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.

All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories.

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.

Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories.

I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw them out - I don't know where to put everything.

All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

A friend is someone you can call at any hour to laugh or cry or complain.

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

The color white is the absence of memory.

The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.